Vanessa Gebbie

Vanessa Gebbie is the author of two collections of stories and contributing editor of a creative writing text book. She has won numerous awards – including prizes at Bridport, Fish and the Willesden Herald – for her short fiction. Many of her prize-winning stories have been gathered together in her debut collection, "Words from a Glass Bubble"(Salt Publishing, March 2008). An extract from "The Coward’s Tale" won the Daily Telegraph ‘Novel in a Year’ Competition. Vanessa is Welsh and lives in Sussex.